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@jerrymcg
Did you fall when you fractured your hip? I have congenital cervical and lumbar stenosis, degenerative disc disease and peripheral neuropathy (I am a 55 year old female first diagnosed at 42 and 47). I had similar symptoms to you and had surgery on both cervical and lumbar spine.

My suggestion is you see an orthopedic spine specialist and get MRIs of cervical and lumbar spine to see if you have any issues with discs/bone spurs/arthritis/vertebrae that is compressing your spinal cord/nerve roots/nerves that may be tied to your hip injury or degeneration with aging. My experience with neurologists is they are very limited in doing anything for neuropathy (was told there is no cure for idiopathic small fiber neuropathy and I have that, too). They test and test with EMGs/nerve conduction studies and prescribe certain medications that either don’t help or cause more symptoms. I was told by my spine surgeon that EMGs of your upper/lower limbs does nothing to identify nerve root/nerve health in your spine (radiating nerve pain from your spine may radiate to your legs, for example, but EMGs may show “normal” nerve health in your legs).

Have you had updated MRIs of your pelvis/hips to check bone/joints plus soft tissues? I had to get them done because I had pain/numbness/weakness in back/hips/buttocks and down my legs. It showed bilateral gluteal tendiopathy and bilateral hamstring partial tears which was adding to my spine pain/weakness/numbness.

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This explains a lot.